I'm seeing this issue and noticed that it appears to be "triggerable" by unplugging and plugging in the charger on my laptop. The interesting thing is that it triggers only when I plug the charger back in, and never appears to happen when I unplug it.
Convenient command-line for monitoring usage: watch -n 0.1 'cat /proc/`ps ax|grep gnome-power-manager|grep -v grep|sed "s/\ *\([^? ]*\).*/\1/"`/smaps | grep "\[heap\]" -A 11' -- memory leak in gnome-power-manager on lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569273 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs